Risto Helin's Forum Nokia Blog

Remote Device Access Services Expansion

Rippe — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:13:17 +0300

I happy to inform you that we have started to work with DeviceAnywhere to enhance the remote device access services offered to developers. Working with DeviceAnywhere will enhance the selection of devices from plain S60 selection to our Linux tablets and Series 40.

For more information, please have a look at www.forum.nokia.com/rda .

Quality Afternoon

Rippe — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:03:00 +0300

We had an event in Barcelona. You might have seen the "Forum Nokia goes Barcelona" banners.

In the event there was a slot reserved for me and Lucian to talk about application quality under a title: Quality Afternoon. I'm happy to say that the audience was very active and we got some good discussion going. The problem was that we were not able to distribute the material in a centralised way, 080527 Quality Afternoon.pdf.

I'm sad to say that I try to create slides which are for presenting and not for reading, but I hope you can grasp the idea.

Symbian Signed webinar available!

Rippe — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:42:17 +0300

The webinar about the latest on Symbian Signed "Symbian Signed and its new services" has been made available via the Forum Nokia webinar page.

I hope it will clear out open questions.

RDA for testing

Rippe — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:31:20 +0200

I herd from Symbian that there were challenges in getting the applications to run on the 208 x 208 resolution, so we added one to Remote Device Access (www.forum.nokia.com/rda) to allow testing on that device. Naturally the target is to have all screen resolutions available, but at the same time offer new goodies. Now we have SIMs in place and WLAN in devices which support it. You can even fool around with a GPS emulator if you will.

What else can we do to support you with RDA?

Open Signed Online - beta available

Rippe — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:54:49 +0200

Have you noticed? The Open Signed Online service is available as a beta! You can find it from "My Symbian Signed" section when you have logged in.

I'm talking about a simple way to get your application signed for one IMEI and the 13 capabilities for testing purposes. Might be worth checking out. "The Complete Guide to Symbian Signed" gives you the full story about how and what for bedtime reading. Definetly worth checking out.

A document to read!

Rippe — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 17:19:41 +0200

All the main documentation and information related to Symbian Signed can be found from "The Complete Guide to Symbian Signed" which can be found from the Symbian Developer Network. That is the document to read if you need to know anything about Symbian Signed.

Open C

Rippe — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:20:08 +0200

Open C, Posix libraries, P.I.P.S, etc. so names for easily porting stuff from an other environment to S60. Cool idea, has anyone used it? What did you think, usefull, mindblowing technology?

I got an internal action item to tell what do you have to consider when submitting an Open C application to Symbian Signed. Well, nothing much. Just do the same as with any application: confirm that when the end user takes the application the application will work as expected in the device.

So at the submission confirm that you submit everything there is to need to run the application on a device.

Symbian Signed changes

Rippe — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 13:08:49 +0200

I trust that you are all aware of the changes in Symbian Signed?

Symbian has created a good document related to the new services which I recommend you go through to get familiar on what has happened. You can get it from the front page of the Symbian Signed web site. I did also a webinar related to this and there should the webinar held a week or so ago also coming to Forum Nokia.

Symbian Signed: New and Improved now available!

Rippe — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:46:03 +0200

I trust you have all seen and herd about the changes coming to Symbian Signed? No need to wait, at least some of them are available now. Please the see Symbian Signed web site.

You can find some information about the renewed stuff at Symbian Developer Network and the webinar I held some time back, for further reference.

Which test tools do you use?

Rippe — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 14:37:13 +0200

Some discussion rose in a meeting where I was at. Now it is time to ask you, my dear readers, two questions:

Which test tools do you use in your application development?

Do you automate the testing process or is testing done manually?